ERF vehicles are designed and handbuilt to work day in day out with the complete reliability and maximum economy that reduces...

F EW road transport operators will feel that this particular New Year is likely to be happy and prosperous. Transport follows...

TO TRANSPORT BILL by E FIRST STEPS to amend the Transport Bill have come from the r Liberals. Scarcely had the Second Reading...

FARMERS in Scotland have protested to the Government about the proposals on carriers' licensing and drivers' hours in the...

vital' pleads TRTA D o L i . j A p N F D O T R I r v r E E D R A STRONG PLEA for a reasonable tolerance in the enforcement of...

STRONG CRITICISMS of the effects of some Transport Bill proposals were voiced at a joint meeting of the East and West Midland...

120 hauliers in the West Midlands. Known as West Midlands Tipper Movements Ltd., the group is awaiting the completion of...

IN SWEDEN FOR ALL M1 moves FOLLOWING Sweden's change from leftto right-hand drive, new maximum train lengths and speed...

BDF, the German road haulage association, has announced that the circulation of goods vehicles (lorries and trailers) of 7.5...

THE Polish Government on January 1 introduced a new range of taxes applicable to foreign vehicles entering Poland. These taxes...

BRITISH carriers taking traffic into France now have to pay 161 per cent tax on the transport price over the French portion of...

THE ITALIAN authorities in recent weeks have adopted a noticeable change of attitude in the granting of permits to British...

LEADING personalities in the transport industry are among the 702 figures LEADING in the New Year Honours List. in the New Year...

A L THE SIGNS point to serious labour troubles in the bus industry following the Prices and Incomes Board's rejection of the...

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE Traffic, Highways and Transport Committee have accepted a recommendation by the transport general manager...

MR. R. P. BEDDOW, chairman, in his address to the 51st a.g.m. of the East Kent Road Car Co. Ltd. last week, criticized a...

AT the annual general meeting of Plaxtons (Scarborough) Ltd. in Scarborough last Friday it was announced that when in Canada...

A DOUBLE-DECK bus-side advertisement that moves, the first of its kind in the world, has been developed by the Yorkshire...

THE Conservatives have studied the failure of American policies—similar to Mrs. Castle's PTA plans—and are to use the...

completed for Canadian market T HREE 8ft-wide, Plaxton-bodied Daimler Roadliner coaches were delivered to McNab Bus Sales,...

DRIVERS on the Sunningdale to Bracknell service of the Thames Valley Traction Co. Ltd. are cutting out part of the route...

- pp IBBLE MOTOR SERVICES Ltd., applied to the North Western 171h. Traffic Commisioners in Manchester on Tuesday for an...

SIX B licence applications were granted to Hall and Ham River Ltd. by Metropolitan deputy LA, Mr. C. J. Macdonald, when he held...

"AN honest belief is not the basis for granting a licence," said North Western LA, Mr. J. Else, at Birmingham on Tuesday, when...

DESCRIBED as "a man who has gone through his probation on short-term licences". Mr. P. Kearney was granted a full-term B...

SOUTHPORT CORPORATION applied to the North Western Traffic Commissioners in Manchester on Tuesday to alter all its regular...

BECAUSE the vehicles had been repossessed, two applications by E. G. Gillum, of Leominster, were refused by the West Midland...

AT a resumed hearing at Kettering, Northants, on Friday of last week the East Midland LA, Mr. C. M. Sheridan, rejected an...

"THERE are some features of this case which are not entirely satisfactory," said Metropolitan LA, Mr. D.I.R. Muir, when...

AT a resumed hearing in Birmingham on Tuesday, West Midland LA, Mr. J. Else, granted one of three B licences applied for by W....

THE West Midland LA, Mr. J. Else, last week granted ah application by W.P. Gwillim, of Ross-on-Wye, to add a 3-1-ton vehicle to...

TWO firms, Margo's of Croydon Ltd. and Queens Park Coaches Ltd. are appealing against the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioners...

A EVERYBODY at the Ministry of Transport is so busy churning out White Papers and mouthing platitudes about the integration of...

A NEW TYPE of Fuller Roadranger twinlayshaft 10-speed gearbox is to be produced by Eaton Yale and Towne (UK) Ltd. at the...

-VOLVO CLAIMS By P. A. C. Brockington E NGINEERS of the Volvo company of Gothenburg, Sweden, have given their views on the V...

F ORD Transit short-wheelbase 12, 17 and 22cwt vans are now available optionally powered by the company's 2-litre V4 petrol...

and publications Quick tyre inflator LATEST products from Pneumatic Components are the Portair Meter and a portable test...

'T'HE BUSY ENGINEER can find his job -1 made even busier by the number of accidents in which, although little damage is caused...

with top personalities in vehicle design and application Dr. A. Fogg, deputy managing director and director of engineering...

to the editor Small voice in support SO MUCH OPPOSITION has there been to the proposals in the Transport Bill—and informed...

There is a growing feeling in some quarters that the double-decker bus is on the way out in Great Britain. This view is not...

ISO or Freightliner: 20ft, 30ft or 27ft—it doesn't matter which. The latest model in the CF Con-Leader containercarrying...

By R. D. Cater, AMInstBE PICTURES BY DICK ROSS N the next 10 years development programmes for roads, power stations, factory...

B REATH TESTS for drivers appear to have been vindicated beyond question by the road accident figures for the Christmas...

connection with the erection of small farm sheds—with a simple hoist mounted on it. We want a replacement vehicle with, say, a...

A The National Joint Council on Materials Handling, c/o S. J. Noel Brown and Co. Ltd., 3 Dean Trench Street, London, SW1,...

A For the eight months ended August 1 967 the feeding countries to which commercial vehicles were exported from the United...

in the unladen or partladen state, or must the vehicle be fully laden to its plated gross operating weight? If so can you...

which is fitted with a CAV rotary injector pump. The cold start device is not an excess fuel type, but is one which fully...

A The following five factors are considered important: integrity, intelligence, ability to control people, job knowledge and...

Despite all the changes forecast for road transport in 1968 the need fora knowledge of costing principles will remain A...

Bill Hannah Coachbuilders Led. Cap.: £1,090. Dirs.: W. I. Hannah, Mrs. A. Hannab, 16 Fulwood Park, Liverpool 17. J. Hannah, 152...

CHARNWOOD Charnwood Trucks Ltd. has opened a new truck depot at Shepshed on A512 Ashby/Loughborough Road, half a mile to the...